I just bought the Xiaomi mi 4k to replace my tv, and I was surprised the built-in android TV doesn't work with Netflix (impossible to install it from Google Play).
I was looking for solutions, and found an old post somewhere that suggested maybe an older Netflix APK could work.
I installed one of my most-often used Android apps, the X-plore file manager and installed the obsolete Netflix APK. It didn't work. And then I couldn't even uninstall it in a normal way, because it wasn't shown on the list of apps.
But it turns out X-plore's App manager feature (which you need to first enable for any of the two panels) was not only able to find my unsuccessful installation of the old Netflix app, but also found an existing built-in Netflix app in the System group.
Netflix was actually there, not just disabled, but also hidden (which is probably the reason why I couldn't see my installed version in the app list before).
X-plore let me enable the built-in Netflix app and hey presto! It works! :-D
I have recently bought a new Samsung TV (Q95T). When I play high quality videos natively through Samsung's OS picture quality is miles better compared to playing same videos over VLC Player or Kodi via Android TV Box (Xiaomi Mi Box S).
Here's what a completely dark scene looks like when a video file is played through Xiaomi Mi Box S (played via VLC app - hooked to HDMI Port 1): https://www.dropbox.com/s/9xqy6qgewatviql/IMG_2282.jpg?dl=0
When the same thing is played on Samsung's Tizen, it's awesome, you can't discern anything, it's just completely black and everything is much sharper and better looking. Even when I play it on my laptop it's totally black.
Anybody encountered this problem? I tried playing with display settings on Xiaomi Mi Box S, changing screen resolutions, refresh rates, color space options. Nothing helped.
Is the only solution buying perhaps a better media/blu-ray player or is this the HDMI limitation that just has to be accepted?
Thanks everyone in advance for taking a look on this. Any help and input is greatly appreciated!